Hehe, ok going on from my previous thread (can anyone help with my ati card and GATOS?) here's the trouble I'm having with my travan tape streamer.

I can do a "modprobe ide-tape" and then do "mt -f /dev/ht0 retension" and that worked the tape rewound and did whatever it needed to do. But if I use tar, nothing happens.

I tried this to put something onto the tape:

tar -cvf /dev/ht0 test.jpg

The result was:

test.jpg
tar: /dev/ht0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The tape dosen't seem to take any notice of commands from tar, only from "mt" !

Any ideas
Thanks!

SP

Also tried the programs that come with mandrake and tried starting the system with a tape in but it still didn't work. Even specifying /dev/ht0 in one of mandrake's backup programs (kDat) doesn't work at all .

SP